Employee Benefits Broker and Consulting Services

The Boone County government authority in Lebanon, Indiana is seeking a strategic partner to provide employee benefits broker and consulting services for its Human Resources department. This agency requires expert counsel on plan design, carrier and vendor management, cost containment, compliance, and employee communications. The selected firm must possess demonstrated, in-house capabilities to perform employee benefits data analytics to help the agency manage its benefits program effectively. The scope of work covers detailed claims experience analysis to identify cost drivers, high-cost claimants, utilization patterns, and year-over-year trends across medical, pharmacy, inpatient, outpatient, and specialty categories. The agency also requires plan design disruption analysis, which involves quantitative modeling of the financial and utilization impacts of proposed plan changes on employees. Additionally, the partner must perform benchmarking against relevant public entities and Indiana market benchmarks, alongside predictive modeling to identify emerging high-risk member cohorts and projected cost impacts. Only organizations based onshore within the United States are eligible to submit proposals for this opportunity. Bidders must submit any questions regarding this procurement no later than June 30, 2026. The agency is looking for proposals to determine the budget and accepts digital submissions via email or online.